When watching The Strain I was wondering… ‘The actor who plays Vasiliy Fet, isn’t that… what’s-his-name from Halt and Catch Fire?’ Turns out it wasn’t. Vasiliy Fet is portrayed by Kevin Durand, whereas Joe MacMillan is portrayed by Lee Pace. There is some similarity though. Must be a bushy-eyebrow thing… 😉
Lee Pace / Kevin Durand Read More »
Disturbing news for many people: Ashley Madison (a site intended for married people to arrange adulterous affairs) has been hacked, and some/most/all(?) of their data got stolen. The hackers have made the following demand: Avid Life Media has been instructed to take Ashley Madison and Established Men offline permanently in all forms, or we will
Ashley Madison got hacked, and its data stolen Read More »
Since the battery of my current phone (Nexus 4 running Cyanogenmod 12) isn’t lasting as long as it used to, I’m considering getting myself a new phone. Needless to say, it will have to be bigger, better, faster, and last longer on a battery charge. And… I don’t want to spend a small fortune on
OnePlus One – an affordable high-end mobile phone Read More »
Yes, but only temporarily. Martijn has informed me the server died less than a week ago (perhaps on Friday the 13th?). Don’t dispair though. World of Spectrum has been around for 20 years, and a simple server-death won’t be the end of this magnificent project. Work is under way to revive the site in a
World of Spectrum down Read More »
When I saw this article about the Raspberry Pi 2 in Business Insider I immediately thought: Isn’t that Jason Statham? Turns out that it’s actually Eben Upton, the head of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. They’re most likely not related, but there’s a definite similarity between the two. 😎
Eben Upton / Jason Statham Read More »
When I got a new desktop computer I ran into issues with DisplayPort. My screens worked just fine (even in UHD, albeit at only 30Hz.) with the DVI cables, but when I’d hook them up with DisplayPort cables, I’d get a ‘No signal’. For some reason, this only occurred with 3rd party DP-cables. The cable
Getting ‘No signal’ on your DisplayPort? Here’s a fix Read More »